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La improbable extradición de Cienfuegos no impide que México dé un manotazo de dignidad. PAG. 7

EL ASALTO A LA RAZÓN

Por elemental sentido del honor

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Martin Wolf“Las 10 formas en que

el covid moldeará la vida a largo plazo” - P. 20

Roberta Garza“Piden el voto por ese

que nos llamó narcos y violadores” - P. 10

Roberto Blancarte“Sin olvidar a los

muertos, privilegiemos a los vivos” - P. 12

Dan ventaja a Biden en seis estados que defi nirán la elección

Y llegó la hora. En medio del debate por las medidas contra el confi namiento, la alerta trumpista de fraude y temores de violencia, hoy deciden los estadunidenses

MICHAEL MATHES/AFP, WASHINGTON

Las elecciones presiden-ciales en EU hoy se decidirán en seis estados clave en los que el presidente republicano, Donald Trump, se impuso en 2016. Hace

cuatro años se aseguró la victoria al ganar en Florida, Pensilvania, Míchigan, Carolina del Norte, Wisconsin y Arizona, de los cuales cuatro habían votado al demócra-ta Barack Obama en 2012. PAG. 6

Proyecciones en MéxicoAnalistas de BBVA y Monex prefi eren a un demócrataK. GUZMÁN Y S. RODRÍGUEZ - PAG. 7

Ajustes de última horaAmurallan la Casa Blanca con herrería y concreto ALEJANDRO DOMÍNGUEZ - PAG. 8

Tradiciones. Conmemoración y protestaUnas cien mujeres y 10 niños marcharon por diversas vías de Ciudad de México en protesta por la vio-lencia cotidiana contra ellas y el abuso sexual a menores. El grupo que mantiene ocupada la sede de la CNDH en la calle Cuba se quejó de acoso policiaco y videovigilancia las 24 horas. ARACELI LÓPEZ PAG. 12

CECILIA RÍOS Y GILBERTO LASTRA

Un hospital de la Ssa en Ta-basco es el más letal con 17 docto-res, tres enfermeras y otros nue-ve trabajadores muertos. PAG. 10

En Tabasco, el hospital más letal para personal médico; Durango, a semáforo rojo

Sputnik V, a ArgentinaHasta marzo llegará aquí la vacuna de AstraZenecaEFE - PAG. 10

España. Avanza el proyecto Ley Trans para cambiar de sexo en identifi cación

P. 22-23

JOSÉ ROMERO MATA, LOS ÁNGELES

Un juez federal ordenó el traslado del general Salvador Cienfuegos a Nueva York, donde afrontará cuatro cargos. PAG. 12

Ordena un juez federal traslado de Cienfuegos a una cárcel en NY

¿Qué sejuega?

DonaldTrump

JoeBiden

DEPP PIERDE JUICIO POR DIFAMACIÓN Un juez consideró que el diario británico The Sun no mintió al calificar al actor de la saga Piratas del Caribe como “marido golpeador”.

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BUSCAN ARREBATARLE 276 MDP

La FGR y autoridades judiciales de la CDMX, Estado de México, Guanajuato y Jalisco esperan la resolución de 43 juicios de extinción

de dominio para impactar el patrimonio del crimen organizado

POR LETICIA ROBLESDE LA ROSA

La Fiscalía General de la Re-pública (FGR) y las autorida-des judiciales de la Ciudad de México, Estado de México, Guanajuato y Jalisco prepa-ran un golpe por 276 millo-nes de pesos a las finanzas del crimen organizado.

En un informe al Sena-do de la República, la FGR y la Conferencia Nacional de Procuración de Justicia detallan que entre agosto de 2019 —cuando entraron en vigor las nuevas reglas de extinción de dominio— y julio de 2020 se inicia-ron 45 juicios en materia de extinción de dominio para quitarle a los grupos delin-cuenciales bienes producto de actividades ilícitas como

PAVLOVICH DA POSITIVO A CORONAVIRUS Tras dar a conocer que tiene síntomas leves de covid-19, la gobernadora de Sonora explicó que continuará trabajando desde casa. Con ella suman 13 mandatarios estatales que se han contagiado del virus SARS-CoV-2.

PRIMERA | PÁGINA 8

DURANGO VUELVE A LA LUZ ROJAEl estado cambió su nivel de alerta debido a un alza en el número de contagios de coronavirus. En tanto, Chihuahua reportó que ya no cuenta con capacidad hospitalaria para atender a pacientes de covid-19.

PRIMERA | PÁGINA 8

CONGRESO SE PREPARA PARA REPUNTE El Senado y la Cámara de Diputados implementarán sesiones y votaciones semipresenciales y virtuales como una forma de mantener el ritmo del trabajo legislativo y evitar contagios de covid-19.

PRIMERA | PÁGINA 6

EUROPA

CRECEN MEDIDAS RESTRICTIVAS Ante una segunda ola de contagios de covid-19, esta semana países europeos como Francia y Alemania endurecieron sus medidas para limitar la movilidad, por lo que calles, comercios y sitios turísticos lucen vacíos. En el continente han muerto más de 282 mil personasa causa del coronavirus.

PRIMERA | PÁGINA 10

POR ABRAHAM NAVA

El confinamiento a raíz de la pandemia de covid-19 ha provocado que las afecta-ciones sicosociales de las víctimas colaterales del fe-minicidio y violencia de gé-nero se agudicen.

El aislamiento ha orillado a familiares de las víctimas a alejarse de las redes de apo-yo que las ayudan a enfrentar

Pandemia agudiza efectos de la violencia feminicida

AFECTACIONES A LA PROCURACIÓN DE JUSTICIAFoto: AFP

ECONOMÍA MEXICANA, LIGADA A ELECCIÓN El PIB de nuestro país podría crecer entre 2.9 y 6.5% en 2021, dependiendo de quién gane las elecciones en Estados Unidos. De acuerdo con un análisis de UBS, el mejor escenario para nuestro país es que Biden arrase.

DINERO

Pascal Beltrán del Río 2Federico Reyes Heroles 6Lorena Rivera 15

Con dos pases de anotación, para sumar 561, el quarterback impulsó el triunfo de Tampa Bay frente a Los Gigantes y arrebató el récord a Drew Brees.

ADRENALINA

BRADYVUELVE A LA CIMA

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RESULTADO QUEDARÁ EN SUSPENSO Debido a que millones de estadunidenses decidieron votar por correo para evitar contagios de covid-19, es difícil que esta misma noche se conozca al ganador de la contienda.

FAKE NEWS OPACAN CAMPAÑAS Cuentas falsas, bots y fotos manipuladas invadieron las redes durante el proceso electoral de EU. Contrario a 2016, esta vez tuvieron origen estadunidense.

Para los negocios (entre México y EU) es bueno y positivo que Trump sea el próximo presidente.”

LARRY RUBINREPRESENTANTE REPUBLICANO EN MÉXICO

LAS CIFRAS EN MÉXICO:

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933,155 CONTAGIOS

92,100 DECESOS

CITA HISTÓRICAEN LAS URNAS

el duelo por la pérdida, ase-guró Ana Yeli Pérez Garrido, asesora jurídica del Obser-vatorio Ciudadano Nacio-nal del Feminicidio (OCNF).

“Las redes de apoyo que se construyen entre ellas son sanadoras y les hacen más ligero el ca-minar; ahora, enfrentar-se (solas) a sus procesos de duelo o a aquéllos que habían suspendido por-que estaban en búsqueda de justicia, también ge-nera estos impactos si-coemocionales”, señaló la especialista.

Detalló que otros efec-tos de la pandemia son el recorte a los recursos que se destinan a investigar los casos de feminicidio, así como el retraso en la pro-curación de justicia en los casos de violencia de gé-nero, ya que gran parte de los servidores públicos que indagan los casos de fe-minicidio no puede asis-tir a sus centros de trabajo, al ser parte de la pobla-ción de riesgo, por lo que los avances en el tema han menguado.

PRIMERA | PÁGINA 8

narcotráfico, corrupción, huachicol, extorsión, se-cuestro de personas y lava-do de dinero. Sin embargo, en dos casos no se presentó

Los candidatos a la Presidencia de EU, Donald Trump y Joe Biden, cerraron ayer sus campañas con reproches y acusaciones mutuas. El actual presidente

de EU tildó a su contrincante de corrupto, mientras que el aspirante demócrata llamó a poner fin a un periodo de irresponsabilidad y fracaso.

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PRIMERA | PÁGINAS 20 Y 21

“Un voto por Biden es un voto para ceder el control del gobierno a los globalistas, comunistas, socialistas, los liberales ricos hipócritas.”DONALD TRUMPCANDIDATO REPUBLICANO

“Es hora de que Donald Trump haga

sus maletas y se vaya a casa. ¡Tuvimos suficiente con el caos,

con los tuits, la ira, el odio, el fracaso, la

irresponsabilidad!”JOE BIDEN

CANDIDATO DEMÓCRATA

Alistan golpe millonario a la delincuencia

CARRANZA ANTE EL ESPEJO En un nuevo libro sobre el revolucionario, el investigador Felipe Ávila muestra a un padre amoroso y apasionado de la historia.

PRIMERA | PÁGINA 22

76.4MDPbuscan quitar al crimen las autoridades federales y de cuatro estados.

9.3MDDtambién implican los juicios de extinción de dominio que están en proceso.

un interés económico para el Estado, por lo que sólo procedieron 43.

El documento detalla que los juicios en proceso implican 76 millones 402 mil 883.64 pesos y nueve millones 385 mil 556 dó-lares. De acuerdo con la conversión hecha por este diario con el tipo de cam-bio peso-dólar de 21.27 pe-sos del 1 de noviembre, los nueve millones 385 mil 556 dólares se traducen en 199 millones 630 mil 776.12 pesos.

La Fiscalía debe entre-gar dicho informe cada año, como parte de las acciones para combatir la delincuen-cia organizada mediante el ataque a su estructura financiera.

PRIMERA | PÁGINA 4

NFL

Tampa Bay NY Gigantes

25-23Foto: ReutersFoto: Reuters

Fotos: AP y Reuters Fotoarte : Erick Zepeda

La gobernadora de Sonora, Claudia Pavlovich, da positivo al SARS-CoV-2; inicia aislamiento,

asegura que tiene síntomas leves

HOY ESCRIBEN Javier SolórzanoUna elección incierta pág. 2

Guillermo HurtadoLa paz y la concordia pág. 6

Montserrat SalomónEl día del juicio pág. 19

ELIGEN 210 millones presidente por voto indirecto; en juego, continuidad de régimen disruptivo; mandatario ha advertido posibilidad de no aceptar resultados

ENCUESTAS favorecen a Biden, pero en elección pasada fallaron; 6 estados clave en decisión final; Mé-xico sigue de cerca proceso: Cancillería págs. 5 y 18

Por L. López y J. Gerardo Mejía

Alianza Federalista define su batalla: va a ser por el PEFPlantean los 10 gobernadores en carta a AMLO posponer debate fiscal; exi-gen que ningún estado reciba menos recursos que en 2020; proponen fondo de estabilización, otro para compensar gastos por la pandemia… pág. 4

Tabasco en crisis por tormentas, huracanes… y amenaza no cesa pág. 8

Advierte FMI cicatrices profundas por Covid y difícil recuperación pág. 11

-5.5%Sería la baja en gasto federalizado para 2021

Durango vuelve al rojo para proteger salud y frenar contagiosP R E S E N C I A E N M É X I C O

El gobernador Javier Corral afirma que en Chihuahua ya no

tienen capacidad hospitalaria; ocu-pación de camas supera el 90%

Héctor Astudillo, mandatario de Guerrero, alista consulta para saber si endurecen medidas sani-

tarias de cara a diciembre

La CDMX, con ligero respiro en internamientos; descienden 1.9% en los últimos tres días y aumen-

tan altas de pacientes pág. 12

Está en la “etapa más difícil”, dice Rosas Aispuro; desde hoy sólo

permiten actividades esenciales; es segundo estado en ese color pág. 3

TRUMP ¿SE VA O SE QUEDA?

EU define su futuro y el del mundo en

una elección incierta

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El voto latino, clave para definir hoy los comicios en EU

Es el sector minoritario con más fuerza con 32 millones de electores

l Se concentran en estados que son considerados ejes para el resultado

l Trump siguió con su estrategia de que demócratas realizarán fraude

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ANXIETY MOUNTS WITH RACE AT A BITTER END

CLEVELAND Joseph R. Biden Jr. focusing on Ohio on Monday.ERIN SCHAFF/THE NEW YORK TIMES

PITTSBURGH Mr. Biden hopes to flip Pennsylvania this year.ERIN SCHAFF/THE NEW YORK TIMES

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. President Trump in the battleground state.DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES

TRAVERSE CITY, MICH. The president aims to hold Michigan.DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES

adopt statewide.And everywhere, in a year that

has seen record levels of early vot-ing and a huge surge in use of vot-ing by mail, Republicans are gear-ing up to challenge ballots withmissing signatures or unclearpostmarks.

In his last days of campaigning,Mr. Trump has essentially admit-ted that he does not expect to winwithout going to court. “As soon asthat election is over,” he told re-porters over the weekend, “we’regoing in with our lawyers.”

Trailing consistently in thepolls, Mr. Trump in that momentsaid out loud what other Republi-cans have preferred to say quietly,which is that his best chance ofholding onto power at this pointmay rest in a scorched-earth cam-paign to disqualify as many votesas possible for his Democratic op-ponent, Joseph R. Biden Jr.

If there is a clear-cut outcomeon Tuesday night that could notplausibly be challenged via legalaction, all of the planning on bothsides could become moot. But ifthere is no decisive result, the fol-lowing days would likely see an in-tensifying multifront battle foughtin a variety of states.

After months of claiming thatany election outcome other than avictory for him would have to havebeen “rigged,” the president usedhis final days on the campaigntrail to cast doubt on the veryprocess of tabulating the count,suggesting without any evidencethat any votes counted after Tues-day, no matter how legal, must besuspect.

Both sides expect Mr. Trumpand his allies to try again to dis-qualify late-arriving ballots in theemerging center of the legal fight,Pennsylvania, after the state’shigh court rejected a previous at-tempt and the Supreme Court re-

With the election coming to aclose, the Trump and Biden cam-paigns, voting rights organiza-tions and conservative groups areraising money and dispatching ar-mies of lawyers for what could be-come a state-by-state, county-by-county legal battle over which bal-lots will ultimately be counted.

The deployments — involvinghundreds of lawyers on both sides— go well beyond what has be-come normal since the disputedoutcome in 2000, and are the re-sult of the open efforts of Presi-dent Trump and the Republicansto disqualify votes on technicali-ties and baseless charges of fraudat the end of a campaign in whichthe voting system has been se-verely tested by the pandemic.

In the most aggressive movesto knock out registered votes inmodern memory, Republicanshave already sought to nullify bal-lots before they are counted inseveral states that could tip thebalance of the Electoral College.

In an early test of one effort, afederal judge in Texas on Mondayruled against local Republicanswho wanted to compel state offi-cials to throw out more than127,000 ballots cast at newly creat-ed drive-through polling places inthe Houston area. The ruling,which Republicans said theywould appeal, came after a statecourt also ruled against them.

In key counties in Nevada,Michigan and Pennsylvania, Re-publicans are seeking, with mixedresults so far, to force electionboard offices to give their electionobservers more open access sothey can more effectively chal-lenge absentee ballots as they areprocessed, a tactic Republicans inNorth Carolina are seeking to

As Americans Surge to Polls, Trump Contests Some Ballots, Setting Up

Fight Over Which Ones Count

This article is by Jim Rutenberg,Michael S. Schmidt, Nick Corasani-ti and Peter Baker.

Continued on Page A22

GENEVA — On a cold weekendin mid-February, when the worldstill harbored false hope that thenew coronavirus could be con-tained, a World Health Organiza-tion team arrived in Beijing tostudy the outbreak and investi-gate a critical question: How didthe virus jump from animals to hu-mans?

At that point, there were onlythree confirmed deaths fromCovid-19 outside China, and scien-tists hoped that finding an animalsource for the coronavirus wouldunlock clues about how to stop it,treat it and prevent similar out-breaks.

“If we don’t know the sourcethen we’re equally vulnerable inthe future to a similar outbreak,”Michael Ryan, the World Health

Organization’s emergency direc-tor, had said that week in Geneva.“Understanding that source is avery important next step.”

What the team members did notknow was that they would not beallowed to investigate the sourceat all. Despite Dr. Ryan’s pro-nouncements, and over the adviceof its emergency committee, theorganization’s leadership had qui-etly negotiated terms that side-lined its own experts. They wouldnot question China’s initial re-sponse or even visit the live-ani-mal market in the city of Wuhanwhere the outbreak seemed tohave originated.

Nine months and more than1.1 million deaths later, there isstill no transparent, independentinvestigation into the source of thevirus. Notoriously allergic to out-side scrutiny, China has impededthe effort, while leaders of the

W.H.O. Ceded Control to China In Murky Hunt for Virus Origin

This article is by Selam Gebreki-dan, Matt Apuzzo, Amy Qin andJavier C. Hernández.

Continued on Page A8

A man collapsed and died in Wuhan, China, as the crisis began.HECTOR RETAMAL/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES

SCRANTON, PA. The president made Pennsylvania a priority.DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES

MONACA, PA. Mr. Biden visited a community college on Monday.ERIN SCHAFF/THE NEW YORK TIMES

PLANO, Texas — Facing thetoughest race of his Senate career,John Cornyn warned a smallcrowd of supporters from the sec-ond floor of his campaign bus lastweek that his party’s long-helddominance in this historicallyruby-red state was at risk.

But while the three-term Texassenator demonized Democrats atlength, he did not spend muchtime talking up the obvious alter-native: President Trump, theleader of his party, the man at thetop of his ticket on Tuesday.

Asked whether Mr. Trump, theman who redefined Republican-ism, was an asset to Mr. Cornyn’sre-election effort, the senator wassuddenly short on words.

“Absolutely,” he said, stone-faced.

Mr. Cornyn’s gentle distancingfrom Mr. Trump foreshadows a far

less genteel battle to come. Thisyear’s election seems likely toplunge Republicans and Demo-crats into a period of disarray nomatter who wins the White House.With moderates and progressivespoised to battle each other on theleft, and an array of forces lookingto chart a post-Trump future onthe right (be it in 2021 or in fouryears), both parties appear des-tined for an ideological wildernessin the months ahead as each triesto sort out its identities and priori-ties.

The questions facing partisanson both sides are sweeping, andremain largely unresolved despite

For the Next Battle, Two PartiesWill Be Taking On Themselves

By LISA LERER

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Challenge to ReconcileCompeting Visions

President Trump arrives atElection Day on Tuesday tog-gling between confidence andexasperation, bravado and griev-

ance, and marinat-ing in frustrationthat he is trailingJoseph R. BidenJr., whom he con-

siders an unworthy opponent.“Man, it’s going to be embar-

rassing if I lose to this guy,” Mr.Trump has told advisers, a la-ment he has aired publicly aswell. But in the off-camera ver-sion, Mr. Trump frequently ex-claims, “This guy!” in referenceto Mr. Biden, with a salty adjec-tive separating the words.

Trailing in most polls, Mr.Trump has careened through amarathon series of rallies in the

last week, trying to tear downMr. Biden and energize his sup-porters, but also fixated oncrowd size and targeting per-ceived enemies like the newsmedia and Dr. Anthony Fauci,the federal government’s infec-tious disease expert whom hesuggested on Sunday he mighttry to dismiss after the election.

At every turn, the presidenthas railed that the voting systemis rigged against him and hasthreatened to sue when the elec-tion is over, in an obvious bid toundermine an electoral processstrained by the coronaviruspandemic. It is not clear, howev-er, precisely what legal instru-

President, in His Own Bubble, Makes Mad Dash to the FinishThis article is by Maggie Ha-

berman, Alexander Burns and Jon-athan Martin.

Chafing Over His Foesbut Acting Upbeat

POLITICALMEMO

Continued on Page A21

NEW HOPE, Pa. — Voters onboth sides of the nation’s wideningpolitical divide prepared on Mon-day to render a verdict on Presi-dent Trump’s four tumultuousyears in the White House and, inparticular, his management of thecoronavirus pandemic that hasupended American life for thepast eight months.

As Mr. Trump and Joseph R. Bi-den Jr. raced across the most im-portant battleground states in afrenzied final push for votes, the

2020 election was unfolding in acountry with urgent problems: anuncontrolled public health crisis, abattered economy, deep ideolog-ical divisions, a national reckon-ing on race and uncertainty aboutwhether the outcome of the votewill be disputed.

Undeterred by the pandemic,Americans have already dis-played an uncommon determina-tion to have their voices and votesheard this year. Nearly 100 millioncast their ballots in advance ofElection Day, shattering recordsas they endured long lines at earlyvoting sites or sent in their ballots

by mail.Much of the country felt on

edge, as if the often-predicted“most important election of a life-time” had finally arrived. Aheadof the polls opening on Tuesday,businesses in cities from Denverto Detroit to Washington, D.C.,

were boarding up their windowswith plywood as they readied forthe possibility of civil unrest.Some governors were readyingthe National Guard.

“Everyone is starting to panic,”Fernando Salas, a constructionworker, said as he pounded nailsinto a plywood frame at a store-front in a trendy shopping districtnear Los Angeles.

Election administrators bracedthemselves to pull off the twinchallenges of holding an electionduring a pandemic and fending off

Pandemic Shadows the Final Appeals From Trump and BidenBy SHANE GOLDMACHER A Country in Turmoil

Sees a Stark Displayof Differences

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A Fantasia in StoneAt least one person was killed and 15wounded after men with rifles openedfire in the heart of the city. PAGE A11

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Terrorists Strike in Vienna

HBO’s “How To With John Wilson”managed to make a mundane subjecthilarious and topical all at once. PAGE C1

The Best Scaffolding Jokes EverProtests calling for more constitutionaloversight of the monarchy resurrecttalk of a military coup. PAGE A10

A Familiar Refrain in Thailand

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is caughtbetween fellow party members whooppose his national lockdown and oppo-nents who say it’s not enough. PAGE A4

TRACKING AN OUTBREAK A4-9

Revolt on Limits in BritainMembers of the Atlanta Falcons areworking with local high school studentsto support voter participation on Elec-tion Day. PAGE B5

SPORTSTUESDAY B5-7

Recruiting Future Voters

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Risks for Pregnant Women

Amy Coney Barrett asked assured andprobing questions in a Freedom ofInformation Act case. PAGE A29

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Justice Hears First Argument

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BUSINESS B1-4

Social Media on Election Day

Harry Belafonte PAGE A31

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A30-31

Late Edition

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After a campaign of enor-

mous consequence — waged

amid a deadly pandemic, an

economic collapse and a raw

debate over race and justice

— Americans on Tuesday

will render their verdict on

the most divisive and tumul-

tuous four years in modern

history.

At bottom, the contest

amounts to a referendum on

President Trump, his pro-

vocative behavior and the

upheaval that has turned off

more than half the country,

polls show, while delighting

supporters who welcome

the shock to the political sys-

tem.

“We could say it’s the pan-

demic, it’s the economic

crash, it’s racial justice, it’s a

Supreme Court nomination

just days before an election,”

said Amy Walter, an analyst

for the nonpartisan Cook

Political Report, ticking off

seismic events of the last

year, which also included

Trump’s impeachment for

pressuring Ukraine to dig up

dirt on Democratic presi-

dential nominee Joe Biden.

“All of those things have

had an impact,” Walter said.

“But at its core, this election

is about the same thing ...

which is Donald Trump and

your opinion of him.”

Voter interest has been

extraordinarily high.

Nearly 99 million Ameri-

cans have cast ballots even

before polling places open

on election day, surpassing

70% of all the votes counted

in 2016.

Tens of millions more

were expected to brave long

waits and the risk of

COVID-19 to vote in person

on election day; experts

projected overall turnout

could top a record 160 mil-

lion.

Polls have consistently

given Biden the lead

nationwide and in most

battleground states, but

there was enough uncer-

tainty to leave the election

outcome in doubt. With an-

ticipated delays in counting

ballots and Trump threat-

ening to go to court to con-

test the result, it was not

even clear how soon a winner

will be declared.

It is not unusual for a

presidential race to be de-

cided after election day.

That has happened half a

dozen times since 1960, in-

cluding four years ago when

Trump’s victory did not

become apparent until

Wednesday morning on the

East Coast.

Along with the White

House, control of the Senate

is up for grabs Tuesday, with

Democrats hoping a pro-

Biden wave could deliver the

three seats they need to win

a majority. (The vice presi-

dent breaks ties, meaning

Democrats would need to

Andrew Harnik Associated Press

JOE BIDEN, left, and President Trump deliver their final pitch as they race through a handful of battle-ground states on Monday. True to the contest’s churlish form, the candidates hurled accusations and invective.

Evan Vucci Associated Press

After 4 yearsof upheaval,voters weigh inTrump and Bidenwrap up tumultuouscampaigns. It’s unclearwhen presidential raceresults will be known.

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Supreme Courtblocks injuredofficer’s lawsuit

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A death certificate is a fi-

nal marker in someone’s life

— an official accounting of

the end.

The legal forms are used

by families to settle estates

and by public health officials

to assess whether the

healthcare system is ad-

dressing the actual reasons

for our demise.

Despite their impor-

tance, study after study has

shown that as many as half

of them are wrong.

Faced with SARS-CoV-2,

a highly contagious co-

ronavirus that scientists

had never seen before, fed-

eral officials at the Centers

for Disease Control and Pre-

vention issued guidance this

spring aimed at improving

the accuracy of what doctors

identify as the cause of

Virus reshaping death certificates

DEATHS FROM viruses, lethal bacteria and other infections have long beenoverlooked on death certificates. Above, Phoebe Memorial Hospital in Albany, Ga.

Ben Roberts

By Melody Petersen

[See Certificates, A9]

Michael Williams

stepped out of his apart-

ment in downtown Long

Beach on Monday to buy a

couple of midday Red Bulls

for himself and his girlfriend.

He was unsettled, thinking

of an image he saw on Twit-

ter of a man waiting for elec-

tion results holding an

AK-47. Now he noticed the

streets were eerily empty —

and the shopkeepers were

boarding up for election day.

He watched in disbelief

and texted photos to his

friends in North Carolina.

“This is disturbing,” he re-

called thinking.

In this historic year of

plague, fire and unrest in

California, the notion that

the United States electoral

process could devolve into

disarray and violence has

cranked up the anxiety even

Boarded up and stressed out in L.A.

GREGG DONOVAN makes a video as Tiffany & Co. on Rodeo Drive is boarded upby workers before election day. Businesses and residents are bracing for the worst.

Genaro Molina Los Angeles Times

By Joe Mozingo,

Lila Seidman

and Andrew J. Campa

In a year of plague, fire and unrest, election adds to the anxiety

[See Anxiety, A7]

PITTSBURGH — Presi-

dent Trump unleashed a lit-

any of bitter grievances — in-

cluding complaints about

polls that suggest he may

lose Tuesday’s election —

while Joe Biden vowed “an

end to a presidency that’s di-

vided this nation,” as the two

rivals made impassioned

pleas to voters Monday in a

whirl of last-minute rallies.

Trump spent the final

campaign day in a marathon

of five raucous rallies, but

they were all in states that he

won in 2016, showing him

fully on the defensive.

Biden held his three final

events in Ohio and Pennsyl-

vania, battleground states

that he hopes will return to

the Democratic column and

blunt any late Trump surge.

The two campaigns also

deployed their running

mates, spouses and other

surrogates, including former

President Obama and Lady

Gaga for Biden, in an effort

to prod or convince the

shrinking number of voters

still left after weeks of early

voting and a record-break-

ing onslaught of advertising.

As it has been all year, the

two campaigns could not

look and sound more differ-

ent as the final day of voting

approached.

Speaking at mostly

small, carefully socially dis-

tanced rallies in Cleveland

and Pittsburgh, Biden ham-

mered Trump for his han-

dling of the COVID-19 pan-

demic, staying on script and

banking that voters will see

his sober approach as a re-

turn to normality after four

years of tumult under

Trump.

At his first four boister-

ous rallies — in Fayetteville,

N.C.; Avoca, Pa.; Traverse

City, Mich.; and Kenosha,

Wis. — the president repeat-

edly veered off his scripted

Grades of D and F have

increased in the Los Angeles

Unified School District

among middle and high

school students in a trou-

bling sign of the toll that dis-

tance learning — and the co-

ronavirus crisis — is taking

on children, especially those

who are members of low-in-

come families.

The drop in grades,

which also is affecting other

school systems, was dis-

closed Monday when L.A.

Unified released a chart

based on 10-week interim as-

sessments. Poor grades

surged in the district’s lower-

income communities, which

also is where student attend-

ance rates are lower and

where the COVID-19 pan-

demic has hit especially

hard.

“The attendance figures

and interim assessments

don’t reflect the desire or ca-

pability of students,” said

L.A. schools Supt. Austin

Beutner in remarks broad-

cast Monday. “They’re eager

to learn and every bit as ca-

pable as they were before

school facilities closed. But

the struggle to cope with

COVID-19 and online learn-

ing for children and their

families is very real.”

The data on grades made

another announcement all

the more painful, even

though school board leaders

foreshadowed it last week:

Campuses will not reopen

for most students before

January, the superintendent

said. And even that timing

could prove doubtful, Beut-

ner said, unless the co-

ronavirus pandemic sub-

sides and unless state and

local agencies offer more

guidance and resources.

The drop in grades sug-

gests that “traditional ways

of measuring learning need

rethinking,” said Janelle

Scott, a professor in the

Distance learning failing poorest studentsBy Howard Blume

and Julia Barajas

■■■ ELECTION 2020 ■■■

What to expect on election nightA presidential winnermight not be declaredtonight. PERSPECTIVES, A2

Texas voting suitrejected by judgeGOP had asked court toinvalidate drive-throughballots. NATION, A4

Social media’s teston disinformationRumors and lies aboutvoting have shaken trustin platforms. BUSINESS, A8

Trump,Bidenfire lastvolleysThe president unfurlsgrievances, includingcomplaints about thepolls, while his rivalcalls him a ‘disgrace.’

By Noah Bierman,

Melanie Mason

and Evan Halper

[See Campaigns, A6]

[See Students, A12]

[See Voters, A6]